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PRecursors of ExplosiVes:
Additives to Inhibit their use including Liquids
PREVAIL
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Coordinator of PREVAIL and Point of Contact:
Malin Kölhed, Ph D, M Sc
Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI
Senior Research Scientist
PREVAIL
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PREVAIL – background
• Illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in explosives by criminals and their use for criminal purposes (UN 2002)
• On measures to ensure greater security in explosives, detonators, bomb-making equipment and fire-arms(EU COM (2005) 329 final)
• “Enhancing the Security of Explosives”, Report of the explosives security expert task force
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PREVAIL – background
Action Plan (FP7)
Environment; € 1 800 million
Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology; € 1 935
million
Information and Communication
Technologies; € 9 110 million
Energy; € 2 300 million Nano production;
€ 3 500 million
Transport; € 4 180 million
Space; € 1 430 million
Socio-economic Sciences; € 610 million
Security; € 1 350 million
Health; € 6 050 million
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Call addressed by the project
•Security Research Call 2, Topic SEC-2009.1.3.3
Call
•Collaborative project•10 partners
Funding scheme
•September 2010 – October 2013
Duration
• 4,3 M€
Budget
• Properties of improvised explosive devices (in particular liquid explosives) regarding in particular additives to precursors to explosives;
• either by adding inhibitors to prevent them from being used to manufacture improvised explosive devices,
• or by adding markers to allow for easier detection.
Technical content / scope:
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The PREVAIL Consortium
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PREVAIL prevents production
Transportation
Obtainingmaterial
Prepare andproduce
Execution
Terrorist timeline
Planning and financing
Intelligence Monitoring tradeChance /
Informants
Chance / Detection
Counter terrorism timeline
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This is why
Home made explosives [HME] are easy to make from materials that are easy to buy.
This availability attracts terrorists and criminals to manufacture and use HME.
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PREVAIL objectives
PREVAIL is an innovative approach to inhibit the use of some common materials for use as precursors to explosives and to allow for easier detection.
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PREVAIL boundary conditions
Without causing any adverse effects on the environment or on people’s health
Or obstructing the legitimate use of these
materials
Project outline
WP 300
Inhibitors XX
WP 400
Inhibitors YY
WP 500
Novel markers/ detection systems
WP 700
Health and Environment
WP 200
Industrial Acceptability
WP 600
Risk reduction
Roadmap for future work
WP 100
Dissemination
WP 000
Management
WP 300 and WP 400: Inhibitors
Finding inhibitors to prevent concentration of dilute
readily available products by boiling off water
(WP 300).
Finding inhibitors to prevent production of home made
explosives by readily available products
(WP 400).
These inhibitors will be tested for function and
removal in lab scale and validated in large scale
testing (WP 300) or validated on a realistic scale
(WP 400)
The results within these WPs will not be open to the
public
WP 500: Marker/detection system
• Markers to increase the detectability of invisible bombs will be developed.
• These markers will be developed to suit specific detectors.
• These markers will be environmentally friendly, non-toxic and bio degradable
• The results will not be open to the public
Quartz Crystal Microbalance detectors
Bee BiodetectorFluorescense marker
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WP 700: Health and Environment
The suggested additives and markers must be non-toxic and safe to health and environment
PREVAIL includes a theoretical study including chemical and physical properties, mechanism of toxic action, toxicokinetics, risk assessment and dose-response analysis
When necessary, screening tests will be performed
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WP 200: Industrial acceptability
This project will strongly influence manufacturers, users, legislators and governmental security agencies
PREVAIL provides a bridge between the project and the stakeholders by means of presentations and workshops
PREVAIL will identify if added inhibitors and markers need extra testing for safety
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WP 600: Precursor Risk Reduction Strategy
• A roadmap for future R&D and actions will be prepared
• PREVAIL identifies criteria for industrial implementation of inhibitors and markers
• Usefulness of developed additives for other precursors will be addressed
• Required future research will be proposed
WP 000 & WP 100: Management and Dissemination
WP 000
will ensure a well functioning communication and project
management of the project. As well as being responsible for maintaining a proper security
level.
WP 100
will disseminate project results. PREVAIL is a security
restricted project and only certain results of the project
can be publicly disseminated.
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WP 100: Dissemination
Final Workshop
10-11 September
2013
FOI Grindsjön (40 km south of
Stockholm)
EU Restricted EU Confidential Demonstrations
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Acknowledgements
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant Agreement No. 241858.
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